Free browsing & natural media usage

eye square - Visual Measurement allows panel users to browse and use media just as they normally would, while it's controlling ad campaigns in the planned media context. The software measures the respondents' visual engagement with ads and content through eye tracking and emotion recognition and produces easy to use performance reports.

Multi-channel advertising tests

eye square - Visual Measurement is applicable for traditional channels, digital desktop and mobile campaigns. It controls campaigns and the media context by using a browser based media player on the PC (or Smart TV), a browser extension on digital desktop and an app on mobile devices.

BENEFITS OF VISUAL MEASUREMENT

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SPENDING EFFICIENCY

eye square - Visual Measurement allows advertisers and agencies to measure the branding performance of campaigns before and in-flight to shift budgets to creatives, placements and audiences that are achieving high visual & affective performance.

PREDICTABILITY

eye square`s norms database helps clients to understand how competitive
their brand communications are and provides insights on how different
forms of visual engagement drive ad effectiveness.

It allows our clients to quickly identify successful marketing concepts and then to repeat and
scale them.

OPTIMIZATION

eye square`s Visual Measurement scorecards indicate what elements of an ad are not working and provide guidance on how to improve them. Based on the objectives of a campaign, the scorecard metrics serve as measurable objectives in creative briefings and strategic campaign planning.

SPENDING EFFICIENCY

measure before the fact and shift budgets

PREDICTABILITY

learn, repeat and scale

OPTIMIZATION

understand what and how to improve

ADVERTISING SUCCESS

BACKGROUND
BRANDING AND THE SPOTLIGHT OF ATTENTION

Consumers perceive media with a narrow spotlight of attention that is as effective in
filtering a media experience as it is revealing about the viewers interests and their
visual and affective involvement into media and ads. A fact that may fundamentally
transform how brand marketing is measured, planned and designed.

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The spotlight of attention filters the abundance of media content. It creates a
highly subjective media experience.

ATTENTION IS A SCARCE RESOURCE

Attention is a precondition for the success of any marketing communication.
Yet attention is becoming an increasingly scarce resource. In response to a
media environment with rapidly increasing visual content consumers have
adopted a faster, more versatile and highly selective viewing behavior which
poses new challenges to marketers when trying to connect with their
target audience. These new viewing habits are characterized by

skimming through content rather then closely following or reading.

scanning media for cues of specific relevance or appeal and

lower involvement concurrent attending of media.

Consumers are now managing their visual choice on bigger and higher resolution
displays that allow them to scan and selectively involve into some
content while overlooking or suppressing attention to other areas of the
screen. A highly effective yet paradoxical psychological process that is known
as selective attention.

ATTENTION WORKS AS A FILTER

Selective attention should be considered the decisive test
that any brand message has to comply to.

MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGY

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WEBCAM EYETRACKING & EMOTION RECOGNITION

Driven by higher resolution cameras and advances in computer vision the process of visual selection and engagement is now firmly observable by tracking the gaze directions and facial muscle movements of participating consumers that grant access to their webcam or front facing camera of their media screen. The required software is unobtrusive and compliant with privacy standards.

USER FLOW OF THE EYE SQUARE - VISUAL MEASUREMENT SOFTWARE

eye square - Visual Measurement records a participants attention on websites by using standard webcams of PCs and laptops. The solution does not record or transmit video, imagery or personally identifiably data of the user. It instead measures and transmits gaze directions and affective responses to specifically targeted media.

1. USER SETUP

2. CALIBRATION

3. TRACKING

4. SESSION FINISH

FACTS & FEATURES

MEDIA CONTEXT
TRADITIONAL

In Context tests of TV and Print campaigns

eye square - Visual Measurement can track up to 60 minutes of TV or Print media usage on the user's PC or laptop. A media player allows the user to pick preferred content and to browse and switch channels freely.

DIGITAL

Campaign Pretesting on Live Websites

eye square - Visual Measurement allows our clients to simulate & test full digital ad campaigns with support for video and rich media formats. The solution enables campaign pre-testing, benchmarking and strategic campaign planning on live websites not owned by the client

Free Browsing

The solution allows users to pick their preferred websites and media and use them as they normally would. Live media in context tests are enabled by the systems long term tracking and conditional ad simulation capabilities.

Data Quality and Practice

Privacy

The solution does not record or transmit video, imagery or personally identifiably data of the user. It instead measures and transmits gaze directions and affective responses to specifically targeted media.

VISUAL MEASUREMENT SCORECARDS

The eye square - Visual Measurement scorecard is a standardized report of
the key performance metrics of an ad presentation.

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The Visual Measurement scorecard consists of three diagrams, that aim to answer the following questions:

1. "How does the ad work?" - (PERCEPTION DRIVERS diagram)

2. "How much engagement does it produce?" - (IMPACT PROFILE diagram)

3. "What effect does the ad have on the ad objective?" - (AD OBJECTIVE EFFECT diagram)

Below is an example of a Visual Measurement scorecard and a description of each diagram.

PERCEPTION DRIVERS

"How does the ad work?"

This diagram is a visualization of how the ad's individual elements are perceived. It shows what features of the ad are driving it's perception and which ones are not performing as expected. Understanding how and why the ad works, allows creative designers to implement selective changes to improve it.

IMPACT PROFILE

"How much engagement does the ad produce?"

This diagram is a visualization of the three visual engagement levels (Attract, Engage, Interest) that have been measured. Bigger sized circles visualize higher engagement on the respective engagement level. The display allows advertisers to see where in the contact funnel viewers are engaging or leaving the communication.
The visualization can be seen as the "engagement footprint" that the ad generates per thousand impressions (CPM). It is used to focus creative design and campaign planning on maximizing suitable engagement levels per spend.

AD OBJECTIVE EFFECT

"What effect does the ad have on the ad objective?"

This diagram shows how well the measured visual engagement corresponds with the ad objective that the ad is supposed to achieve. It shows the predicted effect on lifting the ad objectives of favorability, message association and purchase intent.
The Ad Objective Effect diagram in the example above indicates that the ad is effective in driving favorability (76% effective). Still the ad is less successful in communicating the specific product message (44%) and not successful to directly effect purchase intent (28%).

CASE EXAMPLESCREATIVE OPTIMIZATION

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DISPLAY AD CREATIVES AIRLINES

In the examples below two airlines aim to communicate a specific feature of their product.

The analysis indicates that only 10% of Delta’s audience have processed the ad content to absorb the message of the ad ("Delta has more legroom"), while 31% of Lufthansa’s audience have shown interest in the complete ad content. Further analysis shows that the key visual of the Delta ad is failing to engage the viewers in the subject of the ad.

CASE EXAMPLESCONTEXT EVALUATION & MEDIA PLANNING

COSMETICS ADSFEMALE FASHION & LIFESTYLE WEBSITE

The following example evaluates the performance of booking a cosmetics ad (Covergirl - Jumbo Gloss) on the female fashion & lifestyle website louloumagazine.com.

The ad manages to involve only 16% of the sites visitors in the features of the advertised product but it achieves high engagement to it's key visual and an above average predicted effect in lifting favorability. The face draws in the viewer, but they don't read the message.

The second scorecard shows aggregated data of 12 cosmetics ads tested in the louloumagazine.com context. The analysis shows that the louloumagazine.com context lifts favorability of cosmetic brands better then 79% of other lifestyle contexts. The website also performs well on the predicted message association dimension.

An explanation of the comparably poor performance of the Covergirl creative booking in the louloumagazine.com context is that the design and layout of the creative does not fit into the general style of the website and is thus disregarded by the viewers of louloumagazine.com.